ФРАНЦИЯ ОБЪЯВЛЯЕТ ОСНОВАНИЕ В ПЕРСИДСКИЙ ЗАЛИВА: - Molly Moore (Вашингтон Пост)
Президент Nicolas Sarkozy объявил среда 15-ое январь, та Франция установил бы военную базу в Объединенных эмиратах, делая им единственную западную силу за исключением США. иметь установку долговременныа оборонительные укрепления в персидский залива.

ВЗРЫВ BEIRUT ОКОЛО США. КОРАБЛЬ ПОСОЛЬСТВА УБИВАЕТ 3: - Alia Ibrahim и Элен Knickmeyer
Бомба взорвала среда 15-ое январь, как США. Корабль спорт-общего назначения посольства прошел припаркованный автомобиль в Beirut, убивая по крайней мере 3 ливанские автомобилисток но только светло повреждая 2 работников посольства.

ПАЛЕСТИНСКОЕ ЗАГРАЖДЕНИЕ РАКЕТЫ РАНИТ 10 В ИЗРАИЛЕ: - Mijal Grinberg
По крайней мере 10 людей были болезненным среда 15-ое январь, когда палестинцы в Gaza запустили заграждение ракет Kassam и раковин ступки на Израиль. Усилия вторник обороны Израиля подсчитали 50 ракет Kassam и 30 раковин ступки ых от Gaza. In addition, ракета Grad Katyusha была найдена почти селитебная зона в Ashkelon.

ПАЛЕСТИНСКИЙ ДОЖДЬ РАКЕТ ВНИЗ НА ASHKELON и Sderot:
Палестинцы в Gaza сгорели по крайней мере 28 ракет на утре Израиля среды, 16-ое января, включая 11 на Ashkelon и 12 на Sderot. Hamas востребовало ответственность для умерщвления волонтера Ecuadorian на kibbutz около Gaza палестинским снайпером на вторнике. (Столб Иерусалима)

15 ПАЛЕСТИНСКИХ MILITANTS УБИТЫХ В GAZA: - Amos Harel, Yuval Azoulay, Avi Issacharoff и Jack Khoury
В воевать в среда 15-ое январь в Gaza, 19 палестинцев были сообщены после того как они убиты, 15 из были подтвержены, что были подготовленными militants. IDF вошел район вторник Zeitoun города Gaza для того чтобы поохотиться для клеток горят ступки на Израиле, и преуспел в ударять 2 таких клетки. Когда Hamas посланное в усилиях для того чтобы воевать воинов, его потеряло 13 людей в ensuing сражении.

РУКОВОДИТЕЛЬ УБИЙСТВ ВЕРХНИЙ ИСЛАМСКИЙ JIHAD IDF БУДЕТ ЗАПАДНЫМ КРЕНОМ: - Просыпанное Али
Walid Abeidi6, командир бригад al-Quds, крыло исламского Jihad воинское в западном крене, было убито четверг 16-ое января, в Kabatiya. Abid было ответственн для деятельностей при полностью организации в западном крене, включая снимая нападения и попытанные нападения террора внутри Израиля. (Новости Ynet) Abid, включается в интенсивнейшую деятельность при террориста с 1980s. Он был сразу ответствен для нескольких murderous бомбометаний суицида, среди их запланирование бомбометания суицида апреля 2006 в Tel Aviv в котором 11 civilians были убиты и дюжины ранили. (Оратор IDF)

‘PEACE NOW’ WILL HAVE TO PUBLICISE EU CONTRIBUTIONS: by Hillel Fendel
The Knesset has passed a law requiring the publication on the internet of all contributions from foreign countries to Israeli associations. The bill is designed chiefly to fight Peace Now, a far-left Israel-based organization promoting Israeli retreat to pre-1967 borders and the end of all Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria. Peace Now is largely funded by foreign governments in the European Union.

SDEROT HOME HIT BY ROCKET-IDF PURSUES TERRORISTS: by Hillel Fendel
Thursday January 17 marked yet another day of Kassam rockets and mortar shells in Sderot and the western Negev. After more than 40 over the course of Wednesday, and at least a similar number the day before, children on their way to school and nursery in Sderot were alerted to the start of the latest attacks when nearly a dozen rained down upon them. Shortly afterwards, yet another nine rockets slammed into the city. On Wednesday, Israel Air Force pilots killed five Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorists in Gaza.. IDF forces killed three other terrorists as their vehicle drove near al-Bureij in Gaza.

POLITICAL ARENA RESPONDS TO LIEBERMAN’S RESIGNATION FROM GOV’T: by Ezra HaLevi
Responses were quick from all sectors to the resignation of Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beiteinu party from the government. The Likud Party issued a statement praising Lieberman for leaving as a result of the government’s diplomatic initiatives. “The Likud calls at this time for the Shas party to leave the Olmert-Barak government in order not to serve a bridge for the division of Jerusalem and Israel’s return to indefensible borders.”

A NEW JERUSALEM NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNED:
A new Jewish community is planned for southeastern Jerusalem, between the neighborhoods of Har Homa and Gilo. The 20-dunam (five-acre) site is located about 400 meters north of Rachel’s Tomb and was purchased for $100,000 from an Arab resident of Bethlehem. The purchase has been registered with the Israel Lands Authority and approved by a Jerusalem Municipal Court judge. The new neighborhood will be known as Tzofei Rachel (A view of Rachel).
‘FIRST TEMPLE’ SEAL FOUND IN JERUSALEM: - Etgar Lefkovits (Jerusalem Post)
A stone seal bearing the name of one of the families who acted as servants in the First Temple and then returned to Jerusalem after being exiled to Babylonia has been uncovered in an archeological excavation in Jerusalem’s City of David, Israeli archeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar said Wednesday January 16. The 2,500-year-old black stone seal, engraved with the name “Temech,” was found this week in an excavation just outside the Old City walls near the Dung Gate.
SUICIDE BOMBER STRIKES AT SHI’ITE MOSQUE:
A suicide bomber killed at least eight people Thursday January 17, in front of a mosque in volatile Diyala province as worshipers gathered for a Shiite holiday, another sign of continuing unrest in northern Iraq despite the launch last week of a major U.S. offensive against Sunni insurgency…
(By Amit R. Paley, The Washington Post)
ISRAEL TEST FIRES LONG RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE:
Ahmadinejad taunts Israel as lacking ‘courage’ to attack Iran
Reacting to an IDF test launch of a long-range ballistic missile on Thursday January 17, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, “They [Israelis] don’t have the courage to attack Iran.”
SHAS STAYS IN COALITION ON CONDITION OF UNDIVIDED JERUSALEM:
The bargaining power of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party has increased as the only remaining right-of-center party following Israel Beiteinu’s departure from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s coalition government on Wednesday January 15. In order to preserve his now weak Knesset majority, it is believed that Olmert will accept the demands of Shas that any negotiations on the status of Jerusalem be postponed until the very end of the Annapolis process.
FATAH & HAMAS CHIEFS MEET, AGREE TO SPLIT INT’L FUNDS: by Ezra HaLevi
The heavily-funded Fatah-headed Palestinian Authority seems to be preparing to reunite with the Islamist Hamas, effectively channeling international aid to a united terrorist front. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he will not continue negotiations with Abbas if Fatah renews attempts to forge an alliance with Hamas. Billions of dollars in aid money, as well as arms and training, have been supplied to Fatah on the condition that it act against Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups. However, Abbas’s regime intends to spend 40 percent of the recently-pledged international aid in Hamas-controlled Gaza, according to a senior PA official. Fatah PA Labor and Planning Minister Samir Abdullah, said that of the $7.7 billion pledged by donor countries, 40 percent would be channeled to Gaza.

ISRAEL THWARTS ISLAMIC JIHAD PLAN TO BOMB TEL AVIV-JERUSALEM RAILWAY: - Yuval Azoulay (Ha’aretz)
Israeli security forces thwarted an Islamic Jihad cell’s plan to place a bomb on the railroad tracks leading from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem near the Palestinian village of Batir, according to information made public on Thursday January 17. The members of the cell were captured a month ago near Bethlehem. The investigation revealed that the suspects learned to make bombs via the Internet.

ISRAEL’S TECHNOLOGY CREATES AND INVESTMENT GOLIATH: - Donald Snyder
Israel, with fewer than 7 million people, has become a Goliath in the world of technology and medicine. It is third only to America and Canada in the number of companies listed on the Nasdaq, ahead of economic powerhouses like Germany, England and China. Bruce Aust, executive vice president of Nasdaq , said 75 Israeli companies worth a total of $60 billion are listed. American troops use Israeli portable digital x-ray machines in Iraq and Afghanistan that don’t require film for developing and are used in battlefield situations. “The quality of their post-doctorates in medicine, nanotechnology and software development is rather incredible,” said Marc Stanley, a technology official at the U.S. Department of Commerce who is involved with fostering collaboration between American and Israeli technology companies. Experts attribute the nation’s success to a confluence of cultural and systemic factors, such as Israel’s highly educated and motivated immigrant population. (FOXBusiness)

RESPONDING TO PALESTINIAN ROCKET FIRE, ISRAEL LOCKS DOWN GAZA: - Adel Zaanoun
Israel locked down Gaza on Thursday January 17, in a bid to halt daily Palestinian rocket fire. Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the closure of all border crossings to commercial traffic and individual travelers except for “exceptional humanitarian needs.”

MORE KASSAMS HAMMER SDEROT AREA:
Kassam barrages from Gaza continued to pound the western Negev communities in Israel on Friday January 18, for a fourth successive day, with some 30 Kassams fired since this morning. This raised the tally of Palestinian rockets fired into Israel to more than 150 this week, along with scores of mortars. Earlier today, the IAF targeted a cell of rocket launchers in Gaza, killing one civilian and wounding three Hamas operatives. Also on Friday, elite Israeli commandoes killed the local Nablus chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades, a Fatah-linked terror militia.

WINOGRAD WILL NOT DEMAND OLMERT’S OUSTER:
According to Israel TV Channel 2 reports, the special committee preparing the long-anticipated Winograd report due on January 30th has decided not to demand the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his poor performance during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. The Winograd commission has reportedly concluded that the war’s failures were more the responsibility of the army, and not the prime minister

WATCHDOG GROUP SLAMS UK FUNDING OF HATE-FILLED PA SCHOOL BOOKS: by Ezra HaLevi
A British taxpayers advocacy group has published a report slamming England’s continued funding of the Palestinian Authority’s Jihadist hate curriculum in PA school textbooks. “How British taxpayers are funding hate education and violence in the Middle East,” was the title of the paper published by the TaxPayers’ Alliance.

HAMAS TERRORISTS SURRENDER IN GAZA: by Hana Levi Julian
Four Hamas terrorists gave themselves up to IDF soldiers in the Golani Brigade following an attack on the former P A Interior Ministry building near the Gaza town of Jabalya on Saturday January 19. Sources in the defense establishment called the capture a great operational and military achievement, saying the prisoners would provide important details on Hamas’s activities. Hamas’s Islamist forces generally prefer death to capture. Two terrorists were killed and several others were wounded late Friday night in IDF air strikes and ground operations. A missile fired in an air strike in the Sajalya neighborhood of Gaza City scored a direct hit on a car carrying terrorists, Kassam rockets and other weapons